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Romania Gives Big Deals To Microsoft Without Bids

"The Romanian government is spending hundreds of
million euros on proprietary software from Microsoft, without
opening up the bid to competitive tenders or considering
alternatives, according to complaints from the country's open
source community.

"The government has announced it will pay €300 million
(£262 million) to a Romanian IT company for PCs and Microsoft
software licences for use in education (see Google translation),
while also directly paying Microsoft €100 million (£87
million) for software licences to be used in government agencies
between 2010 and 2012 (see Google translation). The country is also
paying €58 million (£50 million) this autumn for its
existing 2004 to 2009 framework agreement."